Sanders On His Way to Success in the West

Senator Bernie Sanders won big in Idaho and Utah taking about 78% of the votes in those two states to Hillary’s 21% in those states.  If he keeps it up he can catch Hillary because Hillary’s delegate lead actually shrank down a little to a 303 delegate lead.  As of right now Hillary has 1223 delegates to Bernie’s 920 delegates.  Washington State is coming up this Saturday and most likely Bernie will win big there closing the gap.  Bernie always says he wins with a high vote turnout, and the turnout was strangely down in Arizona.  Norman Goldman just now said it’s his hope that Bernie is still relevant in early June when California votes and Bernie will win big here, too, as well as in Oregon.  There were irregularities in the Arizona Primary.  Donald Trump and Hillary both won big in Arizona but it’s a closed primary and winner take all on the Republican side so Trump scored big.  People who were recent registrants to the democratic party were given a provisional ballot and their votes probably won’t count.  Cruz won big in Utah because of its high Mormon population.  Ted Cruz is the one who wants to police Mosques to insure that there is no radicalization occurring among the membership.  They tried that in New York under Giuliani and it didn’t work, so I’m told.   Hannity says that both Cruz and Trump are strong candidates in their own way.  They are both scarey candidates in their own way.  Trump of course wants to bring back widespread and systematic torture.  Michael Savage claims that torture led to the hunting down and death of Bin Laden.  He is wrong and all the government agencies say he’s wrong.  Trump even wants to kill relatives of terrorists.  And then we have Judy’s remarks about how the mass deportation will work because some will be deported and Judy says “breaking up families is no big deal.  They can go back too- - besides these ilegals go back and forth across the border all the time.  Anyhow this writer is pleased with Bernie’s success in two states yesterday and let’s hope some kind of trend is started.

Last night they had hour long news on ABC dedicated to the Brussels bombings.  They ended up repeating themselves a lot.  The first attack came at 9:12 in the morning or something at the Airport.  Then an hour or so later was the attack in a subway tunnel.  They showed scenes here where it was completely dark and I thought it was night or something.  I’ve heard from two independent sources that Brussels has lax security and it’s too easy for the wrong kind of people to move about freely in the city.  It’s noteworthy that such news tends to help Hillary Clinton.  Of course Hillary Clinton is also helped by closed primary states.  If ISIS hadn’t taken credit for these attacks one might suppose that it was either the Russians going after NATO or something, or perhaps the Greeks going after the European Union headquarters.  ISIS loves the publicity and loves and feeds off the fears instilled in westerners.  People on the left maintain that for some perverse reason ISIS wants the United States to really crack down on dissent and institute measures the more draconian the better.  Because no matter how repressive we are it will feed into the recruitment videos just as mass torture would feed into the recruitment videos.  I had to wait a long time in the medication line with Christian.  I didn’t attempt to get coffee from Glen’s room because I saw Glen earlier by the elevator and he walked away in the middle of the conversation.  But later I met with him on the back benches and he offered me a white cigarette and some of his big glass of tea.  I was looking for a little “lift” to the evening.

I had Norman Goldman on for the three o clock hour.  Norman states that it’s folly to wish that “Well if we really elect somebody really bad we will all see how bad things get and therefore in the next election we will vote sharply in the opposite direction.  Norman as do I believes this theory needs to have a stake driven through its heart and buried.  Because what happens is that the political fabric is so damaged at we never will get back to where we were but that so many things will have “happened” it will be impossible to reverse them all.  It’s kind of like the children of an evangelist preacher being “protected” from “sin” and therefore aren’t allowed to dance or go to movies or to date until they’re eighteen.  He knows that once they get a taste of the good life the rest of us enjoy they will never want to go back.  It’s the same principle with the Cuban people.  With just the prospect of “the good life” in America they will want to learn all they can about America as they reach out to this president.  And “going back” to the way things were will prove problematical.  Of such are resolutions made.  But on the negative side- - we in America have certain traditions and morays.  Once these strings of civility are severed by a Donald Trump, there’s no telling what might happen.  Of course now Norman claims to know Donald’s military advisors.  He describes Trump as an eclectic on Foreign P:olicy taking a little from here and a little from there.  Trump is a non interventionist to the extreme that he wants to even pull out of NATO.  This would create a sense of chaos in the military as well as the Republican Party hierarchy. 

The lead headline in Washington’s blog is “The Trans Pacific partnership is Unconstitutional”.  This goes without saying.  The only thing is what happens when someone brings a case before our Supreme Court.  Some international finger of “justice” is likely to proclaim that even bringing this case before a court trial in the USA is disallowed under this treaty.  Then we’ll have a real international crisis on our hands.  Of course Richard Nixon invented the concept of the modern “trade treaty” even though the majority of the articles of the agreement are not about trade at all.  Neither do they address the question of currency manipulation by China and others.  I guess Nixon is living by his own doctrine of “Well if the President of the United States does it, it is not against the law”.  I don’t know.  I haven’t heard about “Obama Trade” much lately in congress or anywhere.  Maybe the Republicans don’t want it now because Trump has done a thumbs down.  Maybe this is part of the reason why the Republican leadership wants to dump Trump.   But will Trump even have the delegates?   Now Norman Goldman is saying that these same Republican bigwigs are manipulating the “rules” to that Trump thinks he has 1250 delegates but in reality will only have eight hundred and something.  It sounds pretty shifty and underhanded to me.  But I learn new things every day. 

Tuesday:  Thom wants to go back to America First in economics, economic nationalism.  He’s arguing with an anti Trump tea party guy who believes in total Free Trade where American workers compete with slave labor in Malaysia.  Washington’s blog indicates that is Hillary Clinton fails to get indicted then we have no criminal justice system left in this country.  Are there any Roman Brady’s in the justice department who say “I know best” and chooses to block the prosecution of the obviously guilty for some “higher purpose”, in this case the election of Hillary Clinton as Wall Street’s tool in Washington.  Thom just said “The Chinese government is more repressive than the Cuban government”.  If that’s true, what are the right wingers complaining about?  There was an attack in Brussels last night by ISIS or somebody.  Ted Cruz is now calling for police patrols of Muslim neighborhoods to make sure there are no outbreaks of radicalism.  Apparently Mayor Giuliani tried this right after 9 – 11 and it was unfruitful.

President Obama is in Cuba this Sunday and today and tomorrow.  (They said 48 hours)  He’s meeting with Raul Castro but he won’t be meeting with Fidel.  He took the wife and daughters with him there, too.  I am in favor of the trip, which I’m sure would make me a bad Republican.  It’s time to set aside old grudges from 55 years ago.  Sunday was also Palm Sunday and they featured some Papal activities.  In terms of political beliefs, the Pope is much closer to me than he is the rest Protestant Christianity.  

I had Rhapsody in Black on and they spent most of the show doing a tribute to Sam Cooke.  They started with “Let the Good Times Roll”, which they inform us is from March of 1964.  The Rolling Stones performed this song.  They started off with some gospel music from Cook in 1956.  I went out a while and the next song I heard was “The Cha Cha Cha” followed by “She Was Only Sixteen” and then Cook’s contract with King records ran out and they brought “Don’t Know Much About Biology” from their vault.  Sam Cooke moved to RCA and they played “Chain Gang” and later “Cupid” but some stuff from early 1961 wasn’t familiar.  They played “Twisting the Night Away” and the follow up single according to Bill Gardener was a two sided single of “Bring It On Home” and “We’re Having a Party”.  There were three more songs I didn’t recognize then they played “Another Saturday Night”, which I thought was from 1962.  They played a version of “Frankie and Johnny” and then “Little Red Rooster” and then “Ain’t that Good News”.  They then played some civil rights song about “The Change is going to Come”.  They finished with “Shake” and one other.  Sam Cooke was shot by a jealous boyfriend- - and I guess he was only thirty-three when he died.   I think my cold symptoms are getting a little more pronounced now.   I have NBC network news on right now.  There is a growing trend of teenagers not to get drivers licenses than they used to.  There are the insurance costs and better bus service and a growing trend toward physical fitness and walking, and also more rely on their parents or friends.   

The Bill of Rights Revisited

Re-posted Without Permission, ha ha

Amendment 1

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Translation and update:

The United States is founded on the principle of separation between religion and the state.  The United States has no religion nor does it favor any government, movement or ideology that has a religious or nationalist identity.  Religion is a personal matter and has no place in American politics and statecraft.    All persons may speak, blog, paint, photograph,video ,write or publish as they please so long as they do not infringe upon the rights of others. The United States government will not punish journalists and whistle-blowers, will not mislead  people via newspapers,radio,television,movies, social media,the Internet or any future technology.   

The people are free to participate in civil disobedience, boycotts, demonstrations, marches, protests, rallies, recalls, sit-ins and strikes targeting corporations, politicians and the government itself.   The government will not outsource any activity that the Bill of Rights prohibits, nor will it establish constitution free zones at airports, border crossings, ports of entry or border regions.

Amendment 2

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

My Translation and update to 2015:

Individuals are ultimately responsible for defending themselves and their property.  No amount of policing can bring the crime rate to zero and gun control only serves to disarm law abiding people.  Deterrence requires that people have the right to arm themselves and the right to properly use those arms without fear of the criminal justice system.  Therefore, the government (federal,state and local) will not arrest,intimidate,hinder, kill, penalize, taser or spy on people who buy,sell,carry,conceal,import,export,market,store,swap or transport ammunition,handguns, pistols,rifles,revolvers,shotguns or any other civilian weapon. However, to help protect the public from abuse,the government may enforce minimal age, criminal history, mental health and competency standards.

Amendment 3

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Translation and update:

Recognizing that drug abuse is a mental health crisis that does not have a military solution, no government agent, detective, inspector, police officer, sheriff, deputy, investigator, private contractor, security guard, special agent, SWAT team or soldier will invade or occupy the business, cabin, condominium, dwelling, home, office, property, ranch, residence, self-storage unit, motor vehicle, mobile-home, airplane, helicopter or computer of any citizen without due process of law or hot pursuit of a real crime in progress or a warrant signed by a judge. 

Decrees, administrative subpoenas and National Security Letters are not sufficient. In no case will any home, business or vehicle invasion be authorized to search for alcohol, crystal meth, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, heroine, prescription drugs or any other mood altering substance.

Amendment 4

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Translation:

The government, its agents, contractors, peace officers and military will not confiscate, copy, disrupt, monitor, record, spy on, surveil, search, seize, track or video the archives, art, banking records, books, briefcases, cables, cassettes, cell phones, cell phone towers, cloud storage, computer drives, credit card receipts, crypto currency wallets, deliveries, desk tops, diaries, drawings, electric consumption, employment records, Facebook pages, financial records, files, folders, hard discs, health records, journals, hand-written letters, Internet activity, kindles, laptops, library records, license plates, luggage, magazine subscriptions, medical records, packages, papers, pockets, political activity, private conversations, purses, religious texts, social media, spread sheets, tapes, telegrams, telephone records, television usage, texts, thumb drives, travel histories, Twitter accounts, wifi, word documents, automobile, home, office, business, private property, rental space…without just probable cause that spells out the specific reason and specific person or thing to be exempted from this rule. The reason must be clearly stated to the accused and no fishing expeditions are permitted. This rule will apply equally regardless of race, color, appearance, dress or form of speech.

The government will not detain, stop, frisk, interrogate, delay, strip search, scan, fingerprint, iris scan or palm scan any person without specific probable cause. Government will not, without probable cause, impede the movement of people, create black-lists, no-fly lists and watch lists.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from touching you or placing you under surveillance or entering your property without probable cause and even then, only with a court-sanctioned warrant. Unfortunately, the Fourth Amendment has been all but eviscerated in recent years by court rulings and government programs that sanction all manner of intrusions, including giving police carte blanche authority to break into homes or apartments without a warrant, conduct roadside strip searches, and generally manhandle any person in manner they see fit. Moreover, in the so-called name of national security, intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency now have the ability to conduct mass unwarranted electronic intrusions into the personal and private transactions of all Americans, including phone, mail, computer and medical records.

Amendment 5

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Translation:

If you are accused of committing a felony, especially if it is punishable by spending the rest of your days in prison or by ending your life altogether, you have the right to have a grand jury decide first if there really is enough evidence to put you on trial to begin with.  However, this rule does not apply if you are in the military during wartime.

If you are tried but found not guilty, you can’t be tried again for the same crime.  

You can’t be pressured into confessing or incriminating others to save your own skin.    You cannot be forced to plea bargain or pressured and tricked by the police and prosecutors. The government can’t take your house, business, car, bank account, laptop or anything that is yours, without good reason and without compensating you.

Of major importance in the year 2015, the Fifth Amendment is supposed to ensure that you are innocent until proven guilty, and government authorities cannot deprive you of your life, your liberty or your property without following strict legal guidelines. Unfortunately, those protections have been largely extinguished in recent years, especially in the wake of Congress’ passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which allows the president and the military to arrest and detain Americans indefinitely without due process.

6th Amendment

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

Translation:

If you are arrested by the police:

You have the right to a trial and sentencing within ten business days and all proceedings must be open to the public and journalists.  Secret evidence and secret witnesses are not allowed.  The case has to be heard by a judge and jury consisting of people similar to yourself demographically.  You have the right to know, at the time of your arrest, what you are accused of doing wrong, and to see and hear and cross-examine anyone who testifies against you.  You have the right to represent yourself, and have a competent lawyer represent you regardless of your ability to pay.

“…and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor…”

Somebody who is going on trial for a crime has the right to know why they are being accused of a crime and to ask questions to any witnesses who testify, or say in court, that the person committed the crime. A person that is going on trial has the right to have witnesses to the trial who say that the person did not commit the crime.

“…and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”

A person going on trial for a crime has the right to be defended by a lawyer because without one, you will lose.

The Sixth Amendment was intended to not only ensure a “speedy and public trial,” but it was supposed to prevent the government from keeping someone in jail for unspecified offenses. That too has been a casualty of the so-called war on terror. Between the NDAA’s indefinite detention clause and the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) legislation, which has been used as justification for using drones to kill American citizens in the absence of a court trial, the Sixth Amendment’s guarantees become meaningless.

Amendment 7

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Translation:

In the event of a dispute over property worth at least $1000, people have the right to take someone to court in a civil trial and seek a judgement.  Examples include back wages, embezzled funds, fraud and failure to deliver.  The defendant has a right to a trial by jury.  The decision of the jury is final, although in some rare cases, the judge can throw out the jury’s decision and bring in a new jury if the judge thinks that the jury’s decision is wrong.

The Seventh Amendment guarantees citizens the right to a jury trial. However, when the populace has no idea of what’s in the Constitution—civic education has virtually disappeared from most school curricula—that inevitably translates to an ignorant jury incapable of distinguishing justice and the law from their own preconceived notions and fears.
Amendment 8

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Translation:

You are innocent until proven guilty.  The criminal justice system can not make it difficult for you to regain your freedom, property and prior status just because you have been arrested.  You have a right to defend your interests and if you are found guilty by a jury of your peers, the punishment has to fit the crime.  Decades behind bars, solitary confinement, slave labor, denial of voting rights, separation from family and torture are not permissible.   Nor is capital punishment because it is impossible to apply in an equitable way.

Of major relevance in the year 2015, the Eighth Amendment is similar to the Sixth in that it is supposed to protect the rights of the accused and forbid the use of cruel and unusual punishment. However, the Supreme Court’s determination that what constitutes “cruel and unusual” should be dependent on the “evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society” leaves us with little protection in the face of a society lacking in morals altogether. America’s continued reliance on the death penalty, which has been shown to be flawed in its application and execution, is a perfect example of this.

Amendment 9

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Translation:

Just because these are the only rights given to you under this Constitution doesn’t mean that you don’t have other rights not mentioned in this document.

The 9th Amendment provides that other rights not enumerated in the Constitution are nonetheless retained by the people. Popular sovereignty—the belief that the power to govern flows upward from the people rather than downward from the rulers—is clearly evident in this amendment. However, it has since been turned on its head by a centralized federal government that sees itself as supreme and which continues to pass more and more laws that restrict our freedoms under the pretext that it has an “important government interest” in doing so. Thus, once the government began violating the non-enumerated rights granted in the Ninth Amendment, it was only a matter of time before it began to trample the enumerated rights of the people, as explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights.

Amendment 10

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Translation:

Anything that the Constitution doesn’t say that Congress can do, is left up to the states and to the people.

As for the Tenth Amendment’s reminder that the people and the states retain every authority that is not otherwise mentioned in the Constitution, that assurance of a system of government in which power is divided among local, state and national entities has long since been rendered moot by the centralized Washington, DC power elite—the president, Congress and the courts. Indeed, the federal governmental bureaucracy has grown so large that it has made local and state legislatures relatively irrelevant. Through its many agencies, the federal government has stripped states of the right to regulate countless issues that were originally governed at the local level.

"Dash" alias "ISIS" Is Guilty of Outright Genocide

Meric Garland is the Justice nominee Obama picked.  I’m watching him on C-Span introducing him in the Rose Garden.  He was head of his high school class and head of his college graduating class.  He gave up a good carrier in private practice to go into public service as a low level government prosecutor and worked his way up.  He prosecuted the Oklahoma City bombings.  (I’m sure some conservatives will never forgive him for that)  He has served in his current post as DC circuit court justice for nearly twenty years.  Now the President is admonishing anyone who will listen about making this into a political football.  Shawn Hannity accused Judge Garland of being a "hard left liberal".  Other Republicans like Mitch Mc Conell didn't seem to care what political philosophy Judge Garland was- - he isn't even going to take up committee procedings.  Mc Conell says it's his constitutional right not to even LOOK at this candidate.  He is mistaken.  President Obama should have done a recess appointment, if he could get away with it.  This Senate is so lazy anyhow they're going to take the next two weeks off.  Usually when you go to C-Span the last thing they're having is a congressional hearing anyhow.  As to Shawn Hannity there's no reason to even listen to him anymore because he lies about everything.  And he over generalizes to the point of gross distortion kind of the way Paul does.  The good Judge is a little liberal on gun rights and environmental issues.  But he's a hard liner on law and order and slow to afford the defendants any rights.  That's what I've heard.  

This whole political climate is so toxic anyhow and stands in stark contrast to the feelings in this country twenty years ago when President Clinton has smooth sailing to reelection.  Even Rush Limbaugh seemed reluctant to put up much of a fight in the fall of 1996.  Things have sure changed!  You have liberal talk show hosts grossly over-estamating their own power or the power of "the movement" of the left.  It wouldn't be an exaguration to call the situation progressives find themselves in now as "grave" and those who deny it are whistling past a grave yard.  There is no "movement" going on now.  It's been said "We're in the middle of some grand change for the better but it's s historic that we just can't see it when we're living through it.  I refer you back to twenty years ago.  No sane person would dare to say that things aren't a hall of a lot worse in every way than they were then in this country's national politic.  Something else that's almost as morbid-bound as the democratic party is Christianity.  But that's a tale of woe we'll leave for another day.  I think it was James Carvil who said the first things democrats have to do is "get desperate".  This is no time for half way measures.  It's like trying to fight an advancing tank with a water pistol.  I've seen enough on the internet to know how grave things really are for progressives in the courts and in law enforcement, and in the media.  The corporatist media is particularly bad, and we have the communications act of 1996 to thank for that.  It's like liberalism is drowning in quick sand and none of us know it.  (Selah)  Stagnation is not our friend.  Grudging acceptance of the status quo is not our friend.  Half way measures are not our friend.  And to quote Barry Goldwater, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue".   

John Kerry gave a speech on the genocide of “Dash” alias ISIL alias ISIS presumably this morning, because he was wearing a green tie.  “Dash” is destructive to so many different ethnicities and cultures.  There can be little doubt that the war against ISIS must be pursued to the end.  I would only hope that the “coalition” we assembled is as broad as Kerry said it is.   Today Norman “Heinz” Goldman turns 57.  In good news in the Mideast yesterday Russians announced they were pulling troops out of Syria saying that their "mission" there has been accomplished.  Regardless of how it happened, I"m glad it has.  At least that's one threat of World War III that won't become reality.  I just question how serious Sauti Arabia is about stopping ISIS or "Dash" or whatever they're called now.  Because philosophically they are like two peas in a pod, with basically the same goals and aspirations- - at least as far as I can see.

Given the sort of hostile attitude even the "main streme" republicans have in congress I continue to be puzzled why Shawn Hannity sees these leadership republicans in congress as the enemy.  Aren't they doing a good enough job of obstructing any and all legislation proposed by President Obama?   Right now I have it on WCPT three o clock news.  Donald Trump states now that if he were to fail to be nominated at the Republican convention that riots would break out in the streets.  Is this a man who is full of himself or what?  Actually I'm not sure if there were to be riots whether I'd join the anti Trump or pro Trump forces.  As bad as Donald Trump is- - and his campaign has been awful, there's no denying that.  But still Trump has some good ideas- - such as a tougher stance tword China and fair trade and opposing the trans Pacific partnership and all.  Even at this date Trump is not all bad.  It's hard to actually believe Trump would institute systematic torture of the people in Guantanamo Bay.  It's patently illegal and he would be brought up on charges as an international War Criminal. That's something to consider however.  However I still say Trump would be more resistant to Wall Street than Hillary Clinton would.  We hear the word "Crony Capitalism" thrown around.  Maybe someone should refresh my memory as to exactly what that is.  It seems to me that Hillary Clinton is up to her eyeballs in it. It just dawned on me that if Trump fails to get the nomination of his party some of his supporters might want to come over to the Bernie Sanders camp, because we don't like this sucky government any more than Trump does.  It's something to think about.   

 I watched the soap opera.  If we believe the plot now- - Daniel Jonas was conceived in the late eighties and Summer is twenty years older than he is and born on the farm when Maggie was seventeen around 1967 I’d guess.  That makes no sense- either one.  Summer is nowhere near fifty years old, and no way is summer twenty years older than Daniel Jonas.  Who writes this stuff?   There are so many dangling plotlines out there it's time some loose ends were developed into an ongoing timeline.  Let's see - - we have the whole Patch taking the rap for Eva's death.  We have Hope getting off Scott free for a murder she comitted in blood of Stephano.  It isn't inconceivable that everybody in the Salem PD as well as DA Justin knows the wrong person is being charged but there is some sort of Brady code of silence, that's been previously unknown on this show. We have that dangeling rape case.  All of these are story lines that need to see some sort of forward progress.  We have Dario, and we have Damos, and Edwardo and "The Stealth Alliance" and then we have Benjamin Weston - - and we still don't know if EJ is really alive or what happened to Samantha - and the question of whether Johnny and Allie will be teenagers the next time we see them - - and we have Jennifer and her pill problem.  Sometimes Connie is in the habbit of staring at me.  Both Connie and Joe Driso were wearing orange pants with a green shirt.  I had two cups of iced tea from Emma and orange slices. 

Marco Rubio Withdraws from Presidential Race

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The biggest news of last night is that Marco Rubio has withdrawn from the Presidential race.  In a speech he says he was right but that doesn’t make him a winner.   Ohio Governor Kasech won his home state of Ohio and 66 delegates, denying Trump an easy path to victory at the Convention.  Now they say Trump will have to win 59% of the remaining delegates.  I don’t know who does the math on this stuff, but I’m guessing this assumes that Trump is picking up NONE of Marco Rubio’s delegates.  Rubio still has more delegates pledged to him than does Kasech.  Trump won the other four states, Missouri, Illinois, North Carolina, and the big win in Florida with the prize of 99 delegates.  Ted Cruz is the big loser of the night.  He was hoping to win Missouri and I thought polls had him up in that state.  Hillary Clinton swept all five of the states, which surprised me.  It will be about the first time that Sanders fell way short of expectations.  Sanders was expected to win easily in Missouri and Illinois, and Ohio would be more of a challenge.  They waited a long time before calling the victories in Illinois and Missouri and I’m guessing the margin of victory for Hillary was slim.  Then we have the question of just how it is the momentum could have shifted so markedly in just one week.  The answer may be found in a Washington’s blog post of several days ago.  They said that Hillary Clinton forces were sabotaging the campaigns of both Trump and Sanders.  They did this by planting protestors who pretended to be for Bernie Sanders with signs and slogans and all, at the Trump rallies.  People would see this on their TV’s and get turned off on both Trump and Sanders.  They’d be turned off on Trump because of his gestapho tacticts in handling these demonstrators and they’d be turned off on Sanders because he was the one associated with these protestors.  But in reality no Bernie Sanders afficianado would even care to protest a Trump campaign.  After all polls have Trump as the weakest candidate.  People lie about the polls.  Trump is the weakest republican candidate they could put up, and Hillary is the weaker of the two democratic candidates they could put up.  This false notion is rampant now according to Washington’s blog that somehow Hillary is better because she “has experience” and is more “mainstream”.  By “mainstream” though - - they mean her people aren’t involved in protests where people get arrested.  There is also the false meme that Hillary is more “electable” in November.  This false notion has been proven wrong time and time again by actual scientific polls.  But sometimes myth has more of a grip on the American public than do actual facts.  Due to the difference in time zones, even if Sanders had won in Missouri and Illinois, it wouldn’t have shown up in the evening news because this is central time zone- - and they finish up voting later. 

Washington’s blog attacked Norm Chomsky the other day saying that he relies on basically government myth to support the idea that there is nothing about the 9 – 11 events that we don’t already know and all the facts are well known about how of course- - - Iraq did the destruction which is why we went to war in Iraq.  At least this is what the Bush people want the people to believe.  There is a 28 page chapter of the 9 – 11 report that is classified.  This is strange because I thought the whole idea of the 9 – 11 comission is to make public the story about 9 – 11.  Here is a case where the conspiracy people are the ones who rely on facts and not cling to romantic pre-conceived notions.  If you try and pin down the “facts” of 9 – 11 you first have to start by saying that fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.  And two were from the United Arab Emeritz, and one each from Lebanon and Egypt.  You will note that none of the hijackers are from Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan.  Another false notion is the idea that somehow “We turned Iraq over to Iran, who run it now” all because President Obama pulled out the troops too soon.  Here is falsehood on parade.  Obama didn’t do any “pulling out” of troops.  He was going along with a pre arranged timetable laid down by Bush.  If anything President Obama tried to delay the withdrawal of our troops.  People forget that ISIS didn’t exist in the summer of 2011 when the last of our troops left Iraq.  Some day the history books will get the real truth about what happened on 9 – 11 with the Twin Towers.  Today isn’t that day. 

THE FOLLOWING IS A PLUG FOR A BOOK;  By studying the history of the US, from its origins in genocide, white supremacy, oligarcho-fascism, and mass enslavement, to its continuing genocides, ethnic cleansings, terror-bombings, assassinations, coups, cluster bomb and other weapon sales, and annexations and atrocities-by-proxy around the world today, we can see that the title of a new book, ISIS IS US, by the founder of Washington’s Blog and several other authors, is more than a play on words.  The book traces much of this history in explicit detail and with a vast range of sources, quotes, and studies. Comprehensively, it leaves a picture that will enlighten and make concerned readers want to do something to stop the flow of terrorism, charred corpses, and smashed democracies that is the productive output of the US ruling elite, a fundamentalist group obsessed with money, luxury, power, and death, their own “ideology and form of religion and god-worship, based on self-interest and the whitewashing of memory”, as Canada’s leading intellectual, John Ralston Saul, has put it.  In considering how ISIS IS US, we can begin with a statement by Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who points out that to “sustain our image of ourselves as innocents … we have to blot out … empirical history and replace it with a myth (not so surprising, given that any war against evil is a mythic enterprise).”

The thing wrong with the "Christ's Ventroliquist" book is that it assumes certain things for which there is scant historical varification.  It's primary "source" is the Book of Acts in the Bible, which the author assumes to be one hundred percent historic fact.  But in terms of James being the "head of the Christian church" hanging out in the Jewish Temple- - about the ONLY place you find this is in the book of Acts and an isolated line or two elsewhere.  There is no Gospel in which it's even reported that Jesus and James even had a conversation or even met in some post resurrection experience.  There is only one brief passage in First Corinthians that states that "Jesus appeared to James".  But "appearing to" is not the same thing as giving James all authority over a Christian Church.  Jesus already gave this "authority" to St Peter if he gave it to anybody.  And we are supposed to believe that something "significant' occurred in Antioch, Syria in 49 AD.  (The author stepped in his time machine and knows it was 49 AD because there was a calendar hanging on the wall)  So we know something significant happened in Antioch, Syria where Acts says "It was here they were first called Christians".   I wonder if Charlie Daniels was involved.  Were there any communist flags tacked up on the wall of anyone's garage.  We are told that the infant Church was collectivist or "Communist" as we would say today.  They were zealous to conthiscate all property of its adherents.  (enforced by the death penalty)  We're told a lot of myths just as Lenin and the Bolshivics relied on extensive myth making for the Communist revolution of 1917.  But the author of Christ's Ventroliquists offers up some new scientific method to decipher who is telling the Truth and who is spinning lies.  Who is giving us history and who is spinning myths.  Why should I trust Him over the Church?  I have a better solution.  Trust Me.  Because I know and trust my OWN extensive research on the matter.  (Selah)

Political Developments Now

 I watched Meet the Press and I have a number of political observations as of late.   Donald Trump was speaking when I first arrived and he was being asked about this rampant climate of hostility he had engendered.  He was given opportunity to walk it back a little but being The Donald, he declined- - and continued to justify everything he’s said and denied in any way that he was responsible.   Marco Rubio and John Kasech both are reconsidering their pledge to support Donald Trump should he win.  They and Cruz are referring to the chickens coming home to roost and all of that.  This campaign violence was all in the news even into Saturday.   Ted Cruz strikes me now as the most Presidential of the Republican candidates the way he conducts himself.  You can tell he weighs his words.  I wouldn’t vote for Kasech since I found out yesterday that Kasech actually is all for the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Ted Cruz made it a point to say there is still a possibility he could win the race outright without going to a brokered convention.  If Trump loses Ohio and Florida Cruz will have to win 56% of all remaining races or something but if Trump wins Ohio and Florida, then Cruz will have to win eighty percent of all remaining delegates.   As you know Shawn Hannity was mad enough to spit nails learning that Marco Rubio told his supporters to vote for Kasech in Ohio.  But Kasech is NOT returning the favor and isn’t telling his supporters to vote for Marco Rubio in Florida.  So Kasech is more piggish.   In terms of delegate “Math Death” Rubio would have to win 98% of the remaining delegates and Kasech would have to win 112% of the remaining delegates to win the contest outright.  Things don’t look too good for Hillary right now and she is suddenly afraid of her prospects in several of Super Tuesday II’s states.  She said “Missouri looks too much like Oklahoma”.  And Illinois and Ohio don’t look too good either.  Rom Emanuel is a negative factor in Illinois and he knows it and has been kept out of the public eye.   Really most of Hillary’s best states are behind her, and Washington’s blog has stated that from now on the odds will favor Senator Bernie Sanders catching up to Hillary in votes.

The following three paragraphs were from a letter to someone a week ago.  I believe pollution and global warming are major problems and we need to wean ourselves off of fossle fuels.  I believe in a twelve dollar minimum wage.  (not fifteen)  I am against "bad deals" with either China or Iran or the Trans pacific partnership.  I want to crack down on cyber theft of China and regotiate NAFTA or eliminate it.  I agree with Rubio and Kasech that we need a "path tword citizenship of eleven million illegal aliens to bring them out of the shadows.  I believe in GMO labeling.  I think the FDA needs to be overhauled so that they don't approve dangerous drugs.  We need to negotiate the price of drugs.  I would like to see some sort of increased competetion of health plans like going accross state lines like the republicans want.  We need to get rid of Obama Care because it's a disaster.  I agree with Kasech and Trump that we shouldn't go around trying to start World War III with Russia.  Putin is a dangerous fellow but he has Nukes and has indicated he intends to use them.  I would try and negotiate other nations to help fight ISIS.  I would renegotiate the Iranian deal.  I believe in States rights but am against people like Governor Snyder of Michigan would rob local cities of THEIR rights.  Municipalities should retain the right to set pollution standards and also to outlaw certain types of firearms if they want.  I think the senate fillibuster rule has been over-used in the past.

In terms of Supreme Court rulings,  I would overturn Roe vs Wade.  I would also overturn Citizen's United.  Money is not "speech".   I disagree with the gay marriage ruling.  I would seek to overturn that.  I'm anti abortion except in the case of rape, incest and the life of the mother.  I am cautious about genetic research except in cases of specific restoritive gene therapy to restore the human being to the way God intended it - - for instance in the case of some dread disease such as Tay-Sachs.  I am against trying to create some "super species".  I am against these doctor assisted suicide laws such as Oregon.  I am against no fault divorce.  We need to continue to crack down on child sexual predators on the internet.  I believe in religious liberty and freedom to pray in public and post the ten commandments and manger scenes and all of that.  But I am against Trump's plan to "Ban all people of Moslem faith" from entering the country.  I don't want any Holy Crusades against Islam.  I'm not entirely comfortable with the phrase "This is a Christian country" in terms of our foreign policy. 

I'm not happy with any one candidate.  John Kasech, whom I was considering, has come out in favor of the trans Pacific partnership agreement.  This disqualifies him in my eyes. We need a candidate who is for civil liberties and won't collect bulk data collection on all of us.  I agree with Leo Le Port that there should be no back door codes where the government can break in any time they want to into incrypted programs.  I think we need to crack down on Wall Street and various tax laws and loopholes, and believe the Federal Reserve has rigged it to make stock prices artifically high.  CEO's should not be paid in stock options.  I would bring back glass steigell.  We need to restore things like margin requirements and also I'd like a small "stock traders tax" to cut way down on stock speculation and basically "computer cheating".  I believe we should audit the federal reserve and get interest rates on T Bills and such to a more "honest level" reflecting the true availablity of money.  We need to immediately stop this "monetization' stuff.  I would also institute a massive- - infrastructure repair program to fix our roads, bridges and water works.  There are idle people and work needs to be done.  I am against your philosophy of "slash everything" and to "start paying off the national debt as quickly as possible".  I don't see the debt as an urgent priority at this point.  I am against "Free college for everybody" but I think interest payments on student loans can be refinanced so young people aren't bankrupt for years.  Material in blue was just now added.  

Syd Barret is the one we heard from when George Martin died.  Syd was talkative about how his "spirit" was the one that was extant during the peak of the Beatles' psychedelic period.  Syd gave us a song line up.  His first track with the Beatles was "Girl".  The second one was "I'm Only Sleeping" followed by "Strawberry Fields Forever".   Syd sang every Lennon track on Sgt Pepper except the Lennon part in "Getting Better".  He was later asked "So Lennon did that track himself" and Syd responded inigmatically "I didn't say that".   We have a samantic problem with "Magical Mystery Tour" the album because Syd was referencing our "Make an album" version from a couple years ago.  He said "All You Need is Love" was the only Lennon track.  But our version of "Tour" lacks "Baby You're a Rich Man".  Instead we throw in three bonus tracks from Yellow Submarine.  Syd did of course sing on "I'm The Walrus" on MMT.   Also Syd sang on "Accross the Universe" and 'Hey Bulldog" (which as you may know we stick on Abbey Road of all places.  Finally Syd takes credit for vocal on every Lennon track on "Abbey Road" with the exception of "The End", which Syd said WAS Lennon in this case.  Syd later amended his remarks further to say that Greeny was responsible for the lyrics of "Good Morning", "Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite" and about two thirds of "Getting Better".   The Beatle producer Jeff Emerick or whoever took a couple albums off- - the White Album and "Let It Be".  So asked him about if there was a Syd Barret persona coming through on various Lennon tracks.  In terms of Keith Emerson's death- - - as far as the Federation is concerned, ELP is basically Greg Lake with a back-up group.  This is because Emerson and Palmer's cosmic origens are unknown- - at least to this writer.  Greg Lake of course is an Aldeberan IX, and was part of the "Aldeberan IX invasion of the M 51 planet in late 1967 and early 1968.  

Something New (Perhaps)

Dr Ben Carson and former candidate for President has come out today and endorsed Donald Trump.  Apparently some interesting thought processes led to this.  Now there are two different Donald Trumps.  There is the cerebral one that you see in person differing from the one on stage.  How could a reserved Black man go for a neo Fascist or whatever.  Trump’s campaign rallies are getting more and like these Brown Shirt rallies you saw in Munich, Germany in the thirties.  Yesterday there were two more beating incidents.  This lady from Britebart (a conservative) got manhandled by a campaign goon and it left a mark on her arm.  And one (black?) man was “sucker punched” by an older man who was recorded as saying “If that guy comes back we might have to kill him”.  Meanwhile there was another Republican debate last night and it was an apparently civil debate that stuck to the issues.  That’s kind of hard to believe.  Apparently Marco Rubio had a good night.  But it would be just like the media to give Rubio a big build-up for next Tuesday’s winner take all contest in Florida because the media wants to see a horse race.  That’s their goal.  A vote for Ted Cruz or John Kasech in Florida is really a vote for Donald Trump.  I’m sure that message has been registered with the voters there.  That Lee senator from Utah endorsed Ted Cruz yesterday and I listened to his speech on C-Span.  So far the tea leaves seem to be pointing to a Ted Cruz nomination.

There is this movie called the “Young Messiah”, which is about Jesus when he was a seven year old boy discovering who he is.  I’m a little confused is to how James Dobson and the whole fundamentalist gang would be endorsing this obviously non Biblical and highly speculative movie?  Just what are these “thoughts” the kid is having that makes him think he’s the messiah?  What did these fawning priests think of him?  What ‘triggered’ their belief he’s the messiah, and how come they abandoned that belief?  Was the kid another “Omen” case of supernatural hocus pocus that impressed them?  Did they entertain the notion that the kid may be consorting with demons?  I guess I would be asking questions myself about, “Well is he going to be a great military warrior”.  Will he be a political figure that will unite to a greater Israel.  Is this boy gifted in some field and super intelligent.  Should we register him in some astronomical school or will he be a great physician who will discover cures to long term diseases that have plagued mankind for centuries.  Will he be a crusader for social justice and lead campaigns to get innocent prisoners of Rom out of jail?  Will he campaign on changing laws like perhaps eliminate the death penalty because it’s too violent?  How are we doing so far on this?  Theologically what does this boy know about “God” that the learned priests don’t know?  Maybe he’s gifted with his hands.  OK, then let’s get him in the carpenter’s guild. 

I listened to a Rand Paul speech in the Senate about the folly of giving fighter jets to Pakistan because we can’t trust then, and he’s absolutely right.  But of course we will.   Bill tried to call Michael about canceling Sunday’s appointment but got his message service.  The Washington’s blog headline only says that Hillary’s E mails were against the law.  We all know that.  But so far we’ve seen no action.  I don’t think the Wall Street community wants to jeopardize the next possible President’s chances.  It went into a lot of legal stuff but ended in saying “It’s Trump rather than Clinton, who doesn’t have friends in high places”.  The author of the post echoed what I just typed, that they’ll let her get away with it. 

Demographically Detroit has really shrunk just like St Louis.  Fifty years ago Detroit had over two million in population.  Today it is down under a million.  That’s a dramatic exodus from the city which will only get worse in the coming years.  Katelyn Jenner has come out in favor of Ted Cruz, which is a little insulting to Cruz.  Katelyn says “I am not gay”.   I have Stephanie back on now and she will be in Santa Fe on March 26^th.  On April 16^th she will be in Ashville, North Carolina.  Now they just added Miniapolis on Saturday May 7^th.  Miniapolis was the final city of the 2014 tour around June 7^th of that year before her very long hiatus.  Stephanie is offering a “Whore bag” and some DVD’s of stuff otherwise not available. 

Longtime Beatle producer George Martin died on Tuesday at age ninety.  They had a thing on George Martin on ABC news last night neglecting to tell that he’s died.  There wasn’t much learned about him that we didn’t already know, except he produced Cilla Black, who had the hit with “Step Inside, Love”, a Paul Mc Cartney composition.  I scanned Google News looking at a few articles.  Nothing stands out.  Those Democrats from the Judiciary committee held a press conference on the Capitol grounds- - Chuck Schummer and Dick Derbin and Pat Lahee.   Bill remarked that I haven’t talked to Terry Hill in a while.  The latest news on Bill is the doctor called back and Bill will indeed be going into surgery tomorrow on his knee as originally planned.  I got two cups of iced tea – and was lucky to get it.  Today on Days of our Lives they tied up Chase while Sierra had a chance to torture him but she didn’t take the opportunity.  Then they called Hope and arrested him.  Demas rescued Philip from a sticky situation with that Chicago Police Commander.  Since Demas is now paying him the big bucks I guess he’s not as worried about being disinherited since Victor seems content to burn all bridges to his son and visa versa. 

This is Friday March 11, 2016 after breakfast.  Bill is still here.  He doesn’t go in for his surgery till eleven thirty, which seems like a strange time.  The rain is also delayed.  They say the rain will arrive after lunch.  It’s cloudy now.  We’re all set to “spring forward”.   I guess we’re stuck with the Nancy Reagan funeral today on NBC.   It was already light when I went out back this morning to smoke.  Last night I came across something “hot” in my cigarette almost like a pepper corn or something that caused a burning sensation in my throat.  It freaked me out.  It made me think maybe I better quit smoking.  This morning I decided to go to the bakery for a dollar and a half cup of coffee I drank here and didn’t have to be rushed before breakfast.  I got bored with Fridays with John Fugelsang on Stephanie Miller.  It’s the endless reruns they play during the commercials.  So Bill seeing this wanted me to turn on ABC news.   We had oatmeal for breakfast followed by scrambled eggs and toast and butter and jelly.  Last night at dinner they had the St Patrick’s Day decorations up.  I wondered when they were going to do that.

Republicans Love Big Government

This is Wednesday March 9, 2016 after dinner. One thing I’m really phasing out on is politics.  I fell asleep during the Norman Goldman show because it’s all the same thing.  I’m really burnt out on politics and it wouldn’t kill these people to talk about something else for once.  Norman Goldman stated that Trump has 44% of the acquired delegates to this point.  But he can’t get a first ballot nomination at that rate.  But he won’t have to.  Marco Rubio is already fading away and did horribly last night.  In a two man race there seems no reason why one man can’t get fifty percent of the delegates.  Kasech did OK in Michigan but in general didn’t outright win any states.  But next week will tell the story, which is about all I’ll be able to take because I’ve had it with the endless repetitive monotony of it all.  There is a Republican debate on CNN but even if I can get it on computer I don’t know if it’s worth watching because it’s just going to be more of the same insults and stuff we’ve all had enough of.  Some say that Trump is from the racist authoritarian wing of the Republican Party.  There’s truth in that.  These are people- - little piggies- who want to be led around by the snout being dictated to what to think every step of the way.  But it’s this same authoritative wing of the Republican Party that won the 2014 election.  You had the fresh twin evils of ISIS and ebola erupting at the same time.  Both ISIS and terror in general and also Ebola showed that people with a strong authoritarian stance like Governor Christie do well.  They kind of combine like Islamic terrorist from Mexico crossing the border to spread Ebola.  We don’t have that same fixation on terrorism and certainly not Ebola that we had a year and a half ago and it will be a lot tougher to win.  I’m still kind of wondering what happened to Rand Paul because for a long time he was top of the pops, scoring the top of the CPAC polls.  They say they want “less government” but what they mean by “less government” is more corporate anarchy doing what they will, and also “less government” is a code word for stick it to be Blacks, the poor, the students, the disabeled and the labor unions.  But there certainly is nothing “small” about their plans to expand the military as Trump and Rubio and probably Cruz want to do, and certainly that border wall is not a “small” plan.  Rubio says he wants to continue to collect our metadata on our phones.  Judy explains that “This is because “they” make the government do that because they no longer allow racial and religious profiling any more.  I paused a moment to consider the worth of her words.  To me “profiling” in a generic sense requires a big government with a lot of muscle to back up their words.  Donald Trump and I both agree on massive funding to rebuild the crumbling infrastructure of sewer pipes and power plants and roads and bridges.  We’ve been putting off these needed big decisions since the days of Reagan.  Today corporate planners think in terms of the next six month profit and loss statement and the future be damned.  All they care about is their guaranteed golden parachutes and stick the hard work to the next guy.  After thirty years ago this crumbling infrastructure has gone beyond the crisis point/  Of course they won’t use “Big government” to actually regulate anything- - like the drug companies or corporate polluters.  You’d think we could agree on things like eliminating beaurocratic bloat and inefficiency.  But this Republican congress has sworn off any “concord” with the President.  And contrary to what Republicans allege, Democrats too prize individual effort and Bernie Sanders said the other day that a President cannot do everything but that this takes the cooperation of all citizens working together.  Obama has also touched on this theme of “working together”.  But the republicans are all about division and strife- - and whoever is the most powerful gets to be the Bully in Chief for the next four years, cracking heads and whipping people into conformity.   Which is kind of what they had in Bolshivick Russia.

Senator Bernie Sanders won the Michigan primary yesterday over rival Hillary Clinton 48% to 47% approximately.  All the polls showed Sanders down eighteen to twenty points to Hillary Clinton.  This to me looks like media bias in favor of Hillary in a lame attempt to discourage Sanders supporters from getting out to the polls and voting for him.  Sanders proved them wrong.  But the media also makes a big thing that due to Hillary's impressive, bordering on landslide win in Mississippi, that Hillary actually picked up more delegates yesterday.  Norman Goldman almost choked on his words admitting that the situation was far from the way people like he and other "liberals" have portrayed the situation.   If you want unbiased coverage of the Hillary and Clinton battle- - go to Shawn Hannity.  

 Thom Hartman has repeated that you’ll be banned from the message boards of his show if you come up with an anti Hillary statement.  “I know we believe in representative democracy and all but not on this program”.   Hartman is constantly in the position of running defense for Hillary despite the strident opinion of his caller base.  I had Bill Press on briefly.  The latest false charge is that somehow Bernie is sexist.  Thom Hartman continues to praise Hillary when she campaigns dirty with false accusation.  If she tries that with Trump he’s going to cut her to shreds.  Trump won’t let her get away with that bullshit like saying that Bernie Sanders is really against the auto bail-out of early 2009.   It’s the Republicans that filibustered the bill in the Senate that was approved and sent over by the House.  I was fed up with Thom Hartman in the morning. (which was Monday)  I went out for two cups of iced tea in the courtyard.  I had Rush Limbaugh on the rest of the morning.  It’s insanity for sure- - but I tolerate it better from him than coming from Hartman.  Interestingly Rush talked about censorship of the LA Times on the subject of global warming.  They will not accept letters to the editor that oppose the Global Warming idea.  This to me truly is censorship.  Twitter is doing the same thing censoring one side of an issue.  I think if something is to be a democratic forum the way liberals are always talking about, then both sides have to have free access in presenting their point of view.  None of that P C stuff.   

We’ve documented and proven that US “officials” outrageously lie to demonize Russia (and here) acting at the request of Syria’s government for military operations within their own borders against rogue terrorists. These terrorists apparently are agents of the US/UK/Israel illegal Wars of Aggression for empire (also here, here, here).

Immediate escalation of war on Syria might be our .01%’s desperate last move to avoid final defeat and arrests. Global polling proves this end is near: the US is recognized as Earth’s greatest threat to peace; voted three times more dangerous than any other country.

The data confirm this recognition:

• Since WW2, Earth has had 248 armed conflicts. The US started 201 of them (81%).
• These US-started armed attacks have killed ~30 million and counting; 90% of these deaths are innocent children, the elderly and ordinary working civilian women and men.
• The US has war-murdered more than Hitler’s Nazis.
• US official reports now confirm all “reasons” the US told for current armed attacks were known to be false as they were told.
• These lie-started US wars are not even close to lawful.
• US wars and rhetoric for more wars continue a long history of lie-began US Wars of Aggression. Themost decorated US Marine general in his day warned all Americans of this fact of lie-started wars for 1% plunder.

The categories of crime include:

1. Wars of Aggression (the worst crime a nation can commit).
2. Likely treason for lying to US military, ordering unlawful attack and invasions of foreign lands, and causing thousands of US military deaths.
3. Crimes Against Humanity for ongoing intentional policy of poverty that’s killed over 400 million human beings just since 1995 (~75% children; more deaths than from all wars in Earth’s recorded history).

Such crimes OBVIOUSLY call for legal arrests of “leaders” in government and corporate media (for “covering” those crimes with easily verified outrageous lies).

These crimes annually cost millions killed, billions harmed, and trillions looted, with recent history continuing literal centuries of US lie-began Wars of Aggression that involved your families in two horrific global wars for colonial empire.

An arrest lawfully stops a crime in commission. We do this to stop public harm now, and avoid further harm from more criminal acts.

If critical mass of humanity do not demand arrests, millions more will be war-murdered; despite ongoing ridiculous Emperor’s New Clothes lies and crimes.

Can any human being call oneself an “educated adult” with failure to recognize and act upon arguably the one most important law: that trillions-funded massive military never ever ever ever attack unless underclearly defined “self-defense”?  Can any human being call oneself “loving” to not energize thoughts, words, and actions for logically a first and OBVIOUS response: demanding lawful arrests of those organized war-murderers?  Can any human being call oneself a “responsible citizen” to not call corporate media as liars and complicit War Criminals in failure to call these lie-started and illegal Wars of Aggression?